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Re: seting up a gateway



On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 09:39:54AM +1000, Sam Varghese wrote:
| On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 04:15:06PM -0400, D-Man wrote:
| > I know you will need iptables for a 2.4 kernel (haven't been there
| > yet).  For 2.2 kernels it is as simple as "apt-get install ipmasq"
| > (which will install ipchains which does the "real" work) and then tell
| > the others on the LAN to use your IP as the default gateway.
| 
| Do you need to specifically install ipchains? I've been led to
| believe otherwise. Or does this set up your basic ipchains rules?

The 'ipmasq' package depens on 'ipchains' so if you apt-get install it
apt will tell you that it will install ipchains also.  This is the
beauty of apt's dependcy resolution.

-D



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